Estonian technology stories
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31 Jul 2008The symbol of sin and immorality, number one hedonist in the world and a sex machine, that has slept with more than a couple of thousand women. On the other hand, a person fulfilling his dream, a living American dream – that’s 82 year-old founder of the Playboy group billionaire Hugh Hefner. Los Angeles, Beverly [...]
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29 Jul 2008PS Even though this story is not related to business or IT, and one should not expect these kind of stories to be published in TigerPrises.com, it offers interesting reading. It’s kind of “history” too, because it was written in June. But I offer you, readers, this for appetizer. The subject matter here is evangelist [...]
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23 Jul 2008Estonian company Bacterfield has created probiotic functional dog food, that contains a viable bacteria and has great preventive features. During the course of this summer products will be marketed in The Baltics, Finland, Portugal and Greece. „We are currently undergoing active search to find partners in high potential markets, there’ll be 10-15 more countries in [...]
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23 Jul 2008The investment company of the founders of Skype, Ambient Sound Investments finances two innovative companies in Western Europe, both founded by former Yahoo! executives. One of these companies is a modern web-based real estate bureau in Paris, capital of France. They call it Drimki. Drimki is not just a website, that sells real estate. It [...]
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23 Jul 2008Skype will become the greatest company on earth, with or without eBay. That’s a promise, given by Josh Silverman, the new president of global communication software company Skype. Silverman kicked off as the president of Skype from March 23. He gave me his first interview in his new position. We spoke in Tallinn, Estonia, where [...]
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23 Jul 2008Rantelon, a spin-off company from Tallinn University of Technology, provided Estonian soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with radio scrambler devices or jammers. Now the enterprise is looking to get its foot in the US defense industry’s door. The owners of Rantelon, engineers Andres Taklaja and Priit Kinks, can spend hours talking about various antennas, amplifiers [...]